A group of Satanists put up a satanic display in the Minnesota Capitol building located in St. Paul last week, which immediately caused outrage and suggestions that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz needs to take more action to prevent these kind of displays from being put up.
If this isn’t a sign that we’re living in perilous times, what is? I get that we have religious freedom here, but that is mainly for the federal government not to establish a national church the same way the Church of England did. Individual states are absolutely allowed to establish a religion as their own. In fact, if you look at many state constitutions that were written closer to the founding of the country, you’ll see exactly that. Only it wasn’t different religions, but denominations of one particular religion: Christianity.
“Thanks to all the hard work from our Congregation, especially Calcifer, for helping us set up Minnesota Satanists’ first-ever holiday display at the state Capitol in Saint Paul!” a group called Minnesota Satanists went on to say in a Facebook post celebrating their display. “HAIL RELIGIOUS PLURALITY!!! HAIL SATAN!!!”
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The display features a phoenix, an inverted pentagram and the text of The Mass of the Phoenix, which is a ritual that featured in the work of famous British occultist Aleister Crowley.
Minnesota satanists say they have set up their "first ever holiday display" at the Minnesota Capitol Building pic.twitter.com/RECUQ3cQEK
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Minnesota Satanists is a group that was first given affiliation as a chapter of The Satanic Temple in 2019 but broke off from them earlier this year to become their own organization, according to their website. The phoenix statue drew criticism from some Republican state legislators, such as state Rep. Tom Emmer, who blamed Walz for allowing it, as noted by Newsweek.
“Is there anything Tim Walz won’t do to insult Minnesotans?” Emmer said in a post on X.
State Rep. Pete Stauber, who is also a member of the GOP, posted, “When you get a DFL [Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party] trifecta, you get a Satanic display at our state Capitol. During the holidays… what a disgrace. Only in Walz’s Minnesota.”
As of this writing, Walz has not addressed the display. News of this latest display comes just a week after a similar one was destroyed outside the state house in New Hampshire less than two days after it went up.
The statue in New Hampshire depicted a black-clad figure of the demon Baphomet with glowing eyes clutching a bouquet of purple lilacs in its right hand, which symbolized the state flower of New Hampshire. It was also adorned with a purple stole emblazoned with the inverted pentagram, goat’s head of the TST logo, and two inverted crosses. At the base of the statue was a tablet listing the seven tenets of The Satanic Temple, and to its left was a black and white satanic flag.
“The statue was repeatedly vandalized and destroyed last Monday night, prompting an ongoing police investigation,” the article concluded.
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